Martin Truefitt-Baker
Artwork

There have been no shortage of cold, stormy and rainy days this year, so I spent some time up on the mountainside where I had originally see

I ended up fascinated by the poetic idea of an otter swimming in the reflected stars and Milky Way of the night sky.

Fox bluebells spring linocut print purple blue green bracken wildlife vulpes stitchwort bees forest

I've been lucky to have work in three exhibitions starting in January. I managed to get up to Conwy for the opening of the Royal Cambrian...

Well it's been another arty, exciting and busy year, with all of the usual highs and lows of life. I've made a fair amount of art, never...

I've seen kingfishers on the river Usk (south Wales). Sometimes even by the Crickhowell bridge but not that often. My experience of the...

I've been feeling a bit stuck in the studio lately. The winter hasn't been that bad but working on some commissions, a new linocut and...

My latest reduction linocut is of two badgers up on the hillside in the winter on a crisp chilly day. The hawthorn trees up on the...

When I design a linocut I often take the elements of the design, cut them up and rearrange them till I'm happy. It's only another step to...

The process of reduction linocut printing is very unforgiving. Once a slither of lino is cut it is almost impossible to put it back. The...

This is one of two recent prints I’ve been working on over the past month or so. Hopefully the other one of a pinecone will be finished...

This morning. Not as much snow as hoped but enough to make you look at the landscape in a different way. Got lost looking for a new path...

Whahooosie! Finished at last. Several lessons learned, I had to 'patch a part of the last layer because I was rushing and cut away too...